Well about this project, it's something I have been working on after my work hours every single day since last few months and trust me if a day had more than 24 hours, i would have loved to use those extra hours too. Actually it's not the entire thing, it's one important module of the entire thing and most importantly my first individual project after the engineering college final sem project. I still remember that one, my HOD was so impressed that everytime an external reviewer showed up he used to call me up to the podium to give a demo of the current status, like everytime. And when he wanted to submit my project as his mini project for his doctorate program, I kind of felt it was worth more than any acclamation, yeah i don't think it was patent worthy or anything and that happened with consent so let's not trouble anyone with it. All I'm thinking is this is just a beginning because I have a lot to do and a long way to go..and also a lot to learn and improve too..
I know I have been away from this fav pastime of mine for a while now due to all of these things i have in my hand.
2022..
Even though it did not begin on a good note, it ended on a good note. Yes my father's operation and witnessing all of that on my own kind of threw me out of the track from everything else, even my daily routine. And I think I lost Google ,yeah Google call, that kind of thing in itself is an achievement. Recently I heard someone I look upto say Meta reached out to him and hearing the excitement in his voice sums up that. If someone who is at the peak of his achievements values such reach outs why wouldn't I, isn't it? So when I thought I lost Google i had to find ways to bring myself back and put me back on the track. Well I did too..
Impact: I will always remember that evening call with a colleague i lost contact years ago say more than 9 years. Actually she was a junior at work but I did not train her or mentor her or anything like that. Still she used to occassionally come to me with her doubts and to seek related technical advises. Well that's what I thought till she talked to me that day. When someone says to you, she has been making sure she has my contact details on her finger tips even after 9 years and also still keep track of my life and social media updates because she thinks my approach to problem solving and defect fixing shaped her thought process to approach a problem. That was a reminder, a much needed one at that particular point of my life. I think that was one of those days after i returned to Bangalore after dropping my father back in Calicut. Yeah it was a tough period and ofcourse i needed that., that too from someone who had pursued one of my area of interest DevSecOps and reached somewhere with it. I think I would want to value her words forever.
Google - I knew my preps were not on point but it was not like i am an amateur to technology especially the one that round was about. Well, i could have brushed up on my database /SQL skills but there was a point during my interview round where the interviewer himself told me ' i don't know how it all goes further but I'm impressed by what you just said'. Rejection from such a person was unexpected and at some point unacceptable ( that's how I felt then). But now that I think about it there was also something more, this role they approached me is for GCP, but it was a platform engineering kinda role whilst what I do is infrastructure engineering. I don't have anything against platform, but infra is more interesting to me. You know how they say to be an opportunist, grab it when it comes to you but didn't i also once remark on my twitter account years ago that I tend to bag it more than i grab it, well that was a self mock remark then..yeah i too call me an opportunist but something I tend to do looks like mixing up my reality with the opportunity in my hand so yes i might have also discussed i can be a platform E but infra is my niche, i know it's more components than platform but that's why even cloud relies on open sourcing and its scalability, no that was not the answer which impressed him. Well i think it was towards the end of November i received another call from Google for an opportunity in infra E in IC/TL level, well that's a blessed M level , all I can say for now is that it's too early to get a call from a company which rejected me and they are offering exactly the same jobrole which I asked for during that interview but a level higher, so may be they never rejected me as I used to think. Well, it's too early to talk about anything, their interview is a lengthy process and a lot of preps is required for this level, let's just see how it all goes. Also, by the time they contacted me i had already headed down in a different direction so even if i crack the upcoming rounds and grab that role, i wouldn't want to forsake this new direction, that sounds like a lot of tightly packed days to look forward to..
Whatever it will all turn out to be, when I look at 2023 all i see is what you see when an MX player or the like is trying to load a video file..yeah Buffering🌀..
So I think this was going to be my tweet today, '2023, a buffering kinda year and today.. i just want to mark this day #15Jan23' .. well i miss my space so much..
That notification - 9/2/23
Well, hard work pays off, it does, everytime..
Some say shortcuts does too, but I have never seen it happening with me ever so I don't even consider that as a possibility. It's always been I give it my 100% and I get what I work for.. well it's 1:48 am now so yeah there are some catches to this approach too
But I am so happy rn and thats why I'm posting this here.
My mentor, KM, McCombs, UT, all I can say is I wanna reach greater heights.. and to God, don't do that drill on my health again coz I dont have anymore time to spare.. but yeah Thank you God!!
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